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Yes you can. Use the same ratio. It is about 3% nitrogen. Thanks for watching.

@@BareMtnFarm Amazing, thanks. 3%? Seems low but I'll give it a shot.

Yup @laneea cannon that'll work too!

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Hi @Creatively, Candace Flower & Vegetable Gardening Your situation is a little dicey. Multiple transplanting of the ranuncs this time of year could work but the more you disturb the plants by multiple transplants and the longer you use artificial light the more they may get set back. My experience is that artificial lights, unless you have high quality hydroponic grade, tend to yield leggy and weaker plants the longer they are grown under them. The sooner the plants get exposed to natural light the better as well the plants need that natural day-length change to finish growing out well. I think the right thing to do depends greatly on the conditions inside your hoop house. What are the average inside day temps in the hoop? Night-time will be maybe 1-3 deg warmer than outside. Also, are your soil temps staying above freezing, say 35-45 deg or better? Whether the plants will make it will require night time agribon 50 protection with it removed during the day if temps move up inside the hoop. If its colder than 20F outside use a double layer of agribon. It's important that the fabric cloth be kept above the plants(not touching) and that its cover keeps the soil temp from dropping below 35F. Plant in the center row of the hoop house rather than the rows near the house sides. The center row will have the warmest soil. I would use hoops spaced every 8-10' over the bed that keeps the agribon suspended above the plants. In transplanting be sure to spread the roots well so they aren't jammed up and can grow unimpeded. Maybe having a 1-4-1/2" of well rotted compost as a surface mulch around the plants would help too. Honestly this is going to take some TLC until the plants are established. Be sure to water them keeping the soil moist around the plants but not saturated, be observant and water sparingly as needed. The plants can be a little more robust than you think and if the soil is healthy and not frozen things might look rough but will adapt pretty fast. Now if the soil in your hoop is freezing no matter where the row is, or it looks like a polar vortex is heading your way it may be smarter to pot things up and try the double transplant as soon as feasible. One thing you may note about most weather patterns like cold, hot, wet or dry they tend to fluctuate in 10-14 day patterns. So being in mid -January check out your longer term 30 day forecasts for your area, this may give you a heads up on what it may look like through mid-February. Its not perfect but it may give you an idea of which way to go. Hope this helps. winter is always tricky but based on what you say is normal I'd think you have a good shot for success planting in your hoop house directly.

@@BareMtnFarm In so sorry I thought I had commented on the video about preserving apples! 🤦‍♀️ I was wanting to make sure I hadn't accidentally deleted it... lol. Ty sooo much for taking the time to give me some advice! Thankfully, I soaked & planted/presprouted in batches, so some are not as far along as other, so I went ahead & started transplanting the ones that were already like 4 inches tall, & had started to get their roots tangled together. I just popped then into new 1020 trays, further apart, giving their roots more space. & with your advice, I'm going to take the ones that aren't as far along, & start putting them in the hoophouse to harden off. Plant them, after they are hardened off, & give it about a week, & then start hardening off the others. I think (hope) that by then we will be heading into warmer weather, & not have many nights below freezing, & they'll be OK.... I've never grown ranunculus this early, I've never grown anything this early actually... Last year was my first year planting anything BEFORE my last frost date. I've never grown in a hoophouse either, so the thought of planting something into the ground when it's still so cold just scares me. Lisa Mason Zeigler talks about the important of planting 6-8 weeks before 1st frost, so that the plants have time to get rooted into th ground before it gets too cold, so I think that's another thing that has me so worried.

Yes, kind of surprised he didn't add JMS and LAB.

Yes, @James Triplett, I have used JMS, or an extract made like the worm castings but I used leaf mold soil and/or compost soil instead. Haven't tried LAB because my thought would be that it wouldn't be diverse enough. However, I now think @laneea cannon is on to something because I know in KNF they use LAB to re-balance compost piles that have gone anaerobic. So my thought is that it may stimulate the local microbes on the grass blades in the pile to take off. Guess I gotta try that one.

Hi @Amy Crawford purchased worm castings from a local source that you know are recently (1-2 months) harvested would have a good amount of biology as long as they weren't treated with say heat to kill worms left in the castings or weed seeds. This process will kill the biology. Some larger commercial operations treat their castings so they are cleaned and screened such that unwanted things don't germinate in folks potting mix at home. The castings still have mineral and nutrient fertility, just very little or any life left. One disadvantage of purchasing worm castings commercially is that even if the material isn't heat treated the longer it stays in transit, storage, and the store shelf the more likely the biology has died. If you can't get worm castings in the quality needed look at making JMS or using compost/leaf mold soil extract. These are also chock full of biology and will get you started.

Hi @euphony745 First we want to say thank you for watching our videos and being a subscriber. We had a lot of trouble with the audio in making this video because my microphone was not working we ended up boosting Denise's microphone to such a high level to pick up anything I was saying but unfortunately at that boosted level it also picked up sounds that normally no one would ever have heard. In this case if we didn't use the audio from Denise's boosted mic we would not have had any audio at all. So we made the call to use it instead of trashing the whole video. Sorry, as we do this as a passion and are not trained professional videographers by trade. We have to put the best forward that our current skills and equipment allow. We are learning a lot about this process and will continue to try to improve. We do use a tripod and a mono-pole in filming however in using a tripod/mono-pole without personal mics we end up using a shotgun mic on the camera. With shotgun mics we have found that unless there is very little breeze in the open even with the mic windscreen you still get significant background noise. Obviously a higher quality level of equipment, video. audio, and even lighting will improve many things, but until then we'll offer the best that we can. Thank you again for making a comment and watching the channel.

@@BareMtnFarm from watching other channels, people that are having audio problems keep the video but do a voice over, just a suggestion 😘

I thought it was darth vader holding the camera, but great video well done!

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Sorry about that, we had mic problems so we boosted the sound. Hindsight, should have just done a voice over.

Our apologies, We had a mic failure problem on my microphone and chose to use Denise's mic boosted all the way up. Unfortunately at that setting it picked up every movement and sound she made including breathing. Our choice was to trash the entire video and do it over or use it the way we did. In hindsight, we probably should have passed on using the footage and skipped the video. Thanks for watching and we'll strive to get things better.

@@BareMtnFarm you also have the option of using the footage and re-recording a narration for it... food for thought.

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